How Does Project 2025 Compare to the Beloved Community?

As I said in my most recent book, A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community, our country needs to move beyond our broken and polarized politics to a shared moral vision — one that is grounded in a larger story of us, rooted in our common civic and religious values, and is capable of bringing people from across political and cultural persuasions together as one nation. The most promising moral vision for our country today is the same concept that animated the 20th-century’s Civil Rights movement: the Beloved Community. In a Beloved Community, everyone is equally valued and is able to thrive locally and nationally, and our growing diversity is embraced as a strength rather than something to be feared. In other words, a nation in which our promise of “liberty and justice for all” becomes a reality for all.